GEORGE AND BILLY 1969:

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EMI Studio Two, February or March 1969. That is the TG12345 Mk.I 24.8 mixing desk, and that is an 8-track or 4-track 1 inch EMITAPE box. The window behind Harrison is not the window overlooking the studio but the window to communicate with the tape operator on the adjacent room.

Very interesting…
perhaps a tune-up to the organ part on the single Get Back.
after all, Billy is the only artist ever credited on a Beatles label
(as “The Beatles featuring Billy Preston”…very cool). But Paul must also be there if that’s what it is. Or are they checking out the rooftop tapes… but wouldn’t those be at Apple? I’m just wondering what they are doing with that tape without everyone else being there…mainly because they don’t seem to have been at Abbey Road too much during those two months.

Apple Studios had borrowed two REDD consoles to record the Beatles’ Get Back sessions. Since EMI Studios had upgraded Studio Two to a solid state TG12345 Mk.I console (pictured here). Studio Two’s REDD.51 console was then loaned to Apple Corps, and Studio Two’s previous console, a REDD.37 was also loaned so as to work with 8-tracks. Harrison’s 3M M23 8-track recording machine was moved to Apple for this. After the tense Get Back sessions, all borrowed equipment returned to EMI Studios, and Emerick was convinced by McCartney to leave EMI to be chief engineer at Apple Studios and refurbish it to professional standards. Emerick wanted a German Neumann console, but due to Apple Corps. finantial situation at the time, an English Helios 30.16 console was bought. This was 30 channel and 16 subgroups. This refurbishing took eight-teen months, and in Sepetember 1971 Apple Studios was ready and working at 16-tracks. The first LP recorded there was Fanny Hill’s debut LP, recorded in September 1971. The Studio was dismantled when Ringo wanted a Film Suite facility and took all the equipment. At the time of this photograph, the only studio in the world using a TG12345 console, like the one pictured, was EMI Studio Two in London.

henry, what’s in the alfalfa?
Awesome!!!
So meanwhile, back in no. 2 at Abbey Road…
what was/is protocal on access to multitracks?
do you think this picture is recording session for Billy?
Also, did Emerick return to EMI after Apple was dismantled?
(what a bummer)